Thursday, February 28, 2013

Inspiration

DearGolden is a wonderful vintage shop on Etsy and I love reading their blog posts each day for a little style inspiration.This guy is from the 1970s, kint in acrylic and is only $34. Not too shabby. I love the wave motif at the yolk. Makes me want to throw on some strappy leather sandals and paint in the desert somewhere.

I'm back in a colorwork kind of mood. I hit a snag with my Norwegian boot socks and had to put them aside for a while. The foot of the sock doesn't call for any decreases and therefore turned out kinda... stumpy.

It looks fine from the side:

But then, Stumpsville:

See what I mean? Just a little too much fabric at the foot to shove into a shoe. I found this frustrating and put the project aside for a while. I've got a new super colorful project in mind, but the yarn is taking foreeeever to get here and I need something to do while I'm waiting. Ripping back and restarting the feet of these socks seemed like a great 'waiting around' project. It's good practice for the new colorwork project I'll be undertaking soon, and I might actually have functional boot socks before winter is over! Who'd have thought?

2 comments:

These are ridiculously cute! The stripes at the top make me think of basketball socks, but then there's all this fair isle coolness that would show at the top of a boot- that's a neat combo, well worth ripping back to fix.

It's funny - I notice a lot of people on Ravelry modify the pattern to make it look less athletic-socky on top. I just liked having stripes in there to break up all that ribbing - NOT my favorite thing.